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Philosophy

question authority

Institutions do not merely preserve knowledge. They determine what knowledge is permitted to become visible.

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life

brief candle

Political absurdity generates the volatility through which technology acquires influence, while technology increasingly reproduces the conditions that keep political absurdity alive.

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cybernetics

simple, simpler, simplistic

The persistence of populist political narratives as a function of transmissibility explains how and why verifiable truth becomes secondary in public debate.

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Philosophy

enlightenment

Enlightenment begins where the search for certainty ends.

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cybernetics

selling subscription selves

We no longer simply use technology, we now continuously rebuild ourselves and our lives into forms it can recognise, predict and sell.

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cybernetics

dire straits: the economics of delay

Mechanisms created to manage a recurring condition may become dynamically coupled to, and dependent upon, the continued existence of that condition.

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cybernetics

recursion, technically

Field logic describes the recursively antisymmetrical organisation of difference by which systems continually reshape the probability of their own continuity.

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Philosophy

the oldest questions

Life may not need a planet. It may only need matter, persistent gradients of energy, memory, and enough time for (ie self-) organisation to become aware of itself.

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Philosophy

status hierarchy: role-play

Perceived importance is simply the output function of an ongoing game of organisational status hierarchy, social roleplay and meritocratic make-believe.

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cybernetics

towards a transfinite geometry of communication and control

Communication is the continual reorganisation of relational possibility, while control is the selective stabilisation of that organisation across time.

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cybernetics Philosophy

logical orbit: organised persistence as relational invariant

A system persists not by preserving what it is, but by continually reorganising the probabilities of what it can become.

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cybernetics Philosophy

system time

Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.